Malcolm Street

Nice Belgian beers as well!

Career Improved cruise altitude selection for missions. YAY!!!

I don't seem to get Cancel IFR until very late in the flight when descent is under way anyway. I've also had ATC recommend lowering the undercarriage when the aircraft is ridiculously far/high/fast in the descent. No. Can't request descent at all.

I can ask it to reduce the cruise altitude but not commence descent to land.

It is. It's the Airliner Heavy qualification that's I think is still not there.

Under Cessna 208 Caravan: "Tuned gear spring constant + wheels new contact model to fix ground control instability." At friggin' last!!! I'd given up on flying this aircraft in career missions because I got sick of it going haywire on landing after three hour lights and writing the mission off.

I'm learning to use VNAV, but it's causing a problem in career mode, where I'm working towards Cargo-Heavy. My main aircraft is the PC-12, although I doubt it's unique to it. The flight plan shows TOD, as I approach I set target altitude and press VNAV, and sure enough the aircraft descends after it passes TOD. The problem, however, is that ATC keeps insisting that I maintain my previous cruise altitude for quite a bit longer. I get continually pinged and I can lose enough brownie points that I can't get the A needed to count towards the Cargo-Heavy target. IOW, ATC is penalising me for following the flight plan that I have ensured has been sent to ATC!!! In the meantime I can go back to my former practice of waiting until ATC tells me to descend, then making a very steep descent worthy of a WW2 Stuka because it's invariably way after TOD and close to the destination, but that's hardly the sort of flying I want to do. Any ideas?

I run 3 x 43 inch TVs off my new gaming laptop with a laptop 5090 (read detuned 5080 with more VRAM). Runs very nicely with the center monitor on 4k and the others on 2k. It appears to me that FG, as well as DLSS, is working on all three.

Niche aircraft internationally but they were everywhere in Oceania for some reason: Lockheed Electra.

Sounds like earlier situations with B47s refuelling from KC97s.

I read once that when looking for aircrew for the Habu they weren't looking for hotshot pilots as much as people who were very good at monitoring and controlling systems. BTW, another thing to be aware of on long trips as per a quote: "You haven't been lost 'till you've been lost at Mach 3" 🙂

"Wasn't on my radar" - shouldn't have been - it had stealth features decades before the F117

More like the demand for AI data centres going beserk and their owners making bigger orders and having more money. I gather the memory manufacturers aren't increasing capacity as you might expect, unless, like me and many others you see the AI boom as another bubble and they don't want to be caught with overcapacity.

aka boundary layer.

Thanks - that's what I was wanting to hear.